Details from: Yvette Drury Dubinsky, Construct, 2024; Joo Woo, Do Not Draw a Red Star, 2024; Holly Wong, Mending Body/Mending Mind, 2023.
Thursday, December 5, 2024, 6:00 - 7:00 pm EST
Virtual Talk over Zoom
In this virtual artist talk, Yvette Drury Dubinsky, Joo Woo, and the collaborative team of Holly Wong and Aya Karpińska will discuss their solo exhibitions, which will be on view in Galleries I, II, and II from November 16 through December 15. Moderated by artist, author, and critic Buzz Spector, the panel discussion will explore the artists’ diverse approaches to process and material, as well as the common themes that bridge their practices. While Woo and Wong mine family history and personal biography, Dubinsky takes a more formal approach, allowing her individual experiences to creep into the work in unconscious and unexpected ways. Uniting all three of their practices is an interest—sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit—in art’s potential as a conduit for survival, repair, and connection in uncertain times.
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Discussion Moderator:
Buzz Spector makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory, and perception. His solo museum exhibitions include Art Institute of Chicago; Huntington (WV) Museum of Art; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; Orange County Museum of Art; Saint Louis Art Museum; and many private galleries and alternative spaces. Spector’s poetry and experimental writing has been published in journals and reviews since the 1970s, including Benzene, Café Solo, POSIT, River Styx, and WhiteWalls. His art criticism has been published in American Craft, Artforum, Brooklyn Rail, and New Art Examiner, among other magazines. Spector holds degrees from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and the University of Chicago. He is emeritus professor of art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University, St. Louis, and art editor of december, the St. Louis-based magazine of writing and art.
Artist Panel Participants:
Yvette Drury Dubinsky is based in Truro, MA; New York, NY; and St. Louis, MO. She earned her MFA from the Sam Fox School at Washington University, where she has also twice received distinguished alumni awards. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; and Farm Projects, Wellfleet, MA. Dubinsky’s work is in the collections of the St. Louis Art Museum, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art and the Environment, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the Margaret Harwell Art Museum, and has been part of the Art in Embassies Program of the U.S. Department of State. Dubinsky has been the recipient of a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France.
Aya Karpińska expresses poetry through a variety of forms—video, sound, and print—that consciously engage with the affordances of each medium. Central to her work is the role that interfaces play in shaping our relationship with technology. She received a Fellowship for Electronic Writing from Brown University and a Master of Professional Studies, Interactive Telecommunications Program from New York University. An innovator in the digital poetry scene since 2001, Karpińska has exhibited, performed, and lectured about her work across the United States and internationally, including performances at festivals in Paris, Berlin, and Montréal. Her pioneering literary app Shadows Never Sleep was included in the 40th Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam. She is a member of the faculty at Parsons School of Design and New York University. Karpińska lives and works in New York City
Joo Woo received her BFA from Kyungpook National University, an MFA from Hongik University in South Korea, and later an MFA from the Pennsylvania State University after she migrated to the United States. Woo is currently an associate professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She has exhibited widely, including at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, the Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa, the Sejong Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, and the Jorge B. Vargas Museum in Manila, Philippines. She has been a resident artist at the VCCA in Virginia, Ami Art Museum in Dangjin, South Korea, and the Red Gate Residency in Beijing, China. She received the AHL Contemporary Art Award in NYC, the Korean National Art Festival Award at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea, and was nominated for the 2022 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship.
Holly Wong was educated at the San Francisco Art Institute where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in New Genres. Wong has participated in over 100 exhibitions including group shows at the de Young Museum, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. A Presidential Scholar in the Arts, she has received grants from the California Arts Council (Established Artist category), the Puffin Foundation, the George Sugarman Foundation, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She is represented by Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, ELLIO Fine Art in Houston, TX, SLATE Contemporary Gallery in Oakland, CA, and is a National Member of A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. She has been a featured artist in Art Spiel, Maake Magazine, and New Visionary Magazine. Wong lives and works in San Francisco.